Local notes from Monticello and surroundings
Will Altman visits Moline on business. Mary Howell travels to Davenport. Florence Foley visits Dubuque. H. M. Carpenter in Cedar Rapids. McNeal & Co. announces largest jewelry stock in Jones County. A daughter born to Alton and Mrs Black of Castle Grove. Christmas concert at Congregational church. Several residents touring nearby cities and attending events. Kodak sales rep C N Patrick promotes Hastman Kodak Co. in Monticello.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. L. Scheutz
Dela Ware
Jones County
James A. McNeal & Co’s
O. Haeussler
Davenport
Alton Black
Castle Grove
F. W. Koop
Mary C. Howell
Monticello News Briefs Itinerary and Local Happenings
A long list of social visits and travel notes from Monticello and nearby towns. Residents visited relatives in Cedar Rapids Dubuque Anamosa Fayette and Austin Minnesota while others planned trips to Chicago Seattle Hobson and Dubuque. A wedding was held in Monticello and local merchants advertise Christmas goods and services.
Edith Button In Serious Condition After Stroke
Mrs Edith Button suffered a stroke in the latter part of last week and is reported in serious condition. She missed attending her father George W Russell's funeral weeks ago due to illness. Correspondents are asked to mail next week letters to reach the office by Tuesday morning. further news will follow. A Lena Illinois case discusses Mrs Basinger fracturing her leg during a visit to Misses Mary and Carrie Clark. she is being well cared for. Eastern Star officers were elected: Marie Bateman W M E J Reed W P Mrs L J Northrop A M Kate Stabler secretary Mrs Kate Mirick O Mra Nellig Soetje A C G L Lovell Treasurer. A subscriber requests changing paper delivery to FD No 4 Anamosa. identity awaited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edith Button
George W. Russell
Order of the Eastern Star
Marie Bateman
W. M
E. J. Reed
W. P
Mra
Triangle Lek trikiron price offer ends in 30 days
Monticello Electric Co promotes a trial of Triangle Lek trikiron promising proof of its claims. The offer states a price of 2.60 dollars for a 30 day period with a guarantee.
Local notices greet births parties and business changes
Cards announce the birth of a son to Mr and Mrs Fred Kempf in Pauls Valley Oklahoma on December 12 Grandpa and Grandma Kempf celebrate with pride A big party by Mr and Mrs Ed Brazelton followed a husking bee promises kept John Folkers an elderly German near Amber suffers a hog attack while fainting A law firm Herrick Cash Rhinehart dissolves with Cash practicing alone Deitricks offers a great holiday sale beginning December 21 Monticello Methodist Episcopal Church hosts Christmas exercises on December 24 including tree program and sermons W L Rosa a former Monticello merchant joins Phoenix banking as Union Bank Trust Co director F M Rev of Anamosa seeks electric home lighting estimates for Des Moines Children’s Home Finding Society outreach summarizing charity work and call to give
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Kempf
Paul’s Valley
Oklahoma
Grandpa
Grandma Kempf
Charles L. Gould
Anamosa
Des Moines
Box of cigars makes ideal Christmas present
A box of cigars offers a fine gift option for Christmas with a noted selection from Barton & Tutt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barton & Tutt
Girl in Stamford NA grades highest in class
Mary Helen Bates eleven year old daughter of Chauncey and Mrs Bates earns the top average in Stamford graded school in South Dakota with an average above 98. She travels five miles daily on horseback without absence or tardy, riding a wild bronco only she can manage. When wind grew too strong she rode facing backward to finish the trip. Her grandparents Mr and Mrs Herrick received the report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Helen
Chauncey Bates
Stamford
South Dakota
Burglarie at The Proctor Store by Local Lads
A small burglary at The Proctor store occurred last Monday night. Items stolen included underwear handker chiefs and cigars. Entry was through a damaged cellar window and door latch, suggesting local youth rather than a professional thief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Proctor
Major gives runaway prairie schooner ride in town
Major N. G. W. Winner drove a pony and bowled a prairie schooner down First street after noon. A front wheel failed, he halted the horse, and the major regained control before crossing the railway track.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. G. W. Winner
Dress
Noble
Electric light plant offer from Huyck agency
Advertisement invites homeowners to buy a Dean Homelite electric light plant describing it as the cheapest and best on the market. It urges readers to see a plant in operation and notes free estimates from F. M. Huyck, general sales agent in Monticello Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
Gall
F. M. Huyck
Monticello
Iowa
Doctor cures ruptures by fidelity method with no pain
A medical advertisement promises rupture cures by the fidelity method, claiming no pain and no loss of work time. The fragment lacks other details about practitioner or outcomes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Puleston
Aott
High School Notes and Monticello Basketball Wins
Archer Koop reports two weeks no school seniors consider a class play and clean the physics lab. Christmas program planned with songs readings and a play. Monticello defeats Lenox Academy 28 19 at Wap nton. Lenox College beats Epworth 72 19. Team lineups listed with Hollingsworth and Baker leading scorers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Archer Koop
I Bart Locher
Carrie Hoag
Lilian D’autremont
Ethe Taylor
Piaro
Edna Wenger
Burdena Weaper
Lucia di Lammermoor
Monticello
Lenox Academy
Wapkinton
Marioni
Lenox College
Epworth
Monticello Academy
Hollingsworth
Wilson H. Baker II
Williamson W. Kingsley
Ricketts Schniederly
Atchison
T. Kingsley
Rz White
Feld
Bakar
W. Kingsley
Wilson
Milroy
Ricketts
White
Voul Baskets
Baker
Marshal Hall
Reeves
December 1887 Obituaries and Local Ventures
A 25 year retrospective notes deaths in Monticello including infants and elders, church figures, and residents Hison and Moffett. It recalls Marys and Betsy Buttolph, local families, and a milk condensing factory bid that failed, with a committee visiting Cedar Rapids to attract the plant.
Transfer of Insane Patients to Amber County Home
Twelve or fourteen incurable mentally ill patients moved from Jones county to the Independ ence asylum are being transported to the county home near Amber. Supervisor John Thorgen and Sheriff Hogan supervise the transfer by rail from Independence to Coggon then to Anamosa and finally to the Midland road. Most are men. a few women remain. The new county home was designed to house these wards, with no transfers for those likely to improve or needing extra care due to vagaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
Independence
Amber
John Thorgen
Sheriff Hogan
Coggon
Linois Central
Anamosa
Midland Road
Christmas shopping tips in a small-town ad listing
The notice promotes electric heat ease through a Triangle Lektrik iron, a 30 day price of 2.60, bonbons at Barton and Tutt's, quick repair service, James A. McNeal & Co. jewels, Friedman's oleo at 20 cents, artificial Christmas trees at the Variety Store, and eye care by Dr. L G Stubler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello Electric Co
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Monticello Express
Navy
J W. Doxsaer
Edlctor
E. G. Burrichter
Shoes of Quaality
Will Altman
Moline
Florence Foley
Dubuqui
H. M. Carpenter
Cedar Rapids
McNead’s
Martin V. Kehoe
Perry
Eugene Dewitt
Waterloo
Emil Monnier
Linn County
Deutrick’s
Miss Viva Moore
James Farley
Omaha
C. M. Brown
Will Sandhouse
Laura Rydnerson
Howard Deischer
Barton & Tutt’s
Ray H. Huison
John Smith
Chicago
Messrs
James Remley
John Brown
Creston
Congregational Church
J. R. Murphy
Laloupe
Kansas
Mayor Hoag
Gottlieb Bader
Hall Manufacturing Co
Kinsella Hall
Tom George
Minnesota
Mrs
G. H. George
Messrs. R. OC. Stirton
K. D. Miller
Perrine
Barney O’neil
Mike McKeever
Dubuque
Mary A. Fawcett
Manchester
J. H. Nye
Kodak
C.N. Patrick
Hastman Kodak Co
Vic Chambers
Celia Gedient
Henry Harmis
Salon
Henry Tjaden
Fayette
Zena
Anna Landberr
G. L. Lovell
G. L. Schoonover
Mary “George
West Union
Sarah Skelley
James
William Skelley
Austin
Nellie Lacy
Joe’ Fairbanks
Anamosa Sanitarium
James A. McNeal & Co
Verner Stockwell
Jane Moore
Frank Thompson
James Abel
Clinton
McNeal
Minnie Husmann
Anamosa’ Sanitarium
Juli Husmann
Dwight Smith
Mason City
Seward
Prairieburg
Lloyd Bevington
Seattle
Washington
Nellie Johnson
Irma Westphall
Wyoming
W. L. Hanssen
Marion Tabor
Marion
Jack Krey
Henry Krey
John Broeckens
Henry Arties
Strawberry Point
Will Adams
Isaac Sears
Weir
Robert Armel
Edward
W. F. Robn
Soetje’s
Albert Calkins
Standard Oil Co
Onslow
Calkins
Tom Tasker
Hobson
Montana
Mr. Tasker
Deitrick
Henry Burrichter
Fred Burrichter
Presbyterian Church
Scotch Grove
Deatrick D. G. Co
Tom King
T. A. King
Mary George
John Danneman
Herman Danneman
Minnie Hults
Jasper Hults
C. Mardorf
Wayne
F. D. No
Ed Brazelton
Deitrick’s
John Folkers
Herrick, Cash & Rhinehart
Charles J. Cash
B.E. Rhinehart
Mr. Herrick
Mr. Rhinehart
Methodist Episcopal Sunday School
W. L. Rosa
Phoenix
Arizona
Union Bank &Trust Co
Arizona Republican
Southwest
Jones County Telephone Co
Iowa Telephone Co
Jones County Telephone Company
Bell
Patrick’s
Raymond Irving Benedict
Herbert Benedict
Hew
W. Z. Allen
Oakwood
Raymond
Hopkinton
New York
Otto Wochdski
Leon Carroll
Oxford Mills
Elsie Leslie
Welch
W. M. Welch
A. B. Paul
Jamison
Smyth
Gorman
Supreme Court
Evangelical Lutheran Church
Naether
Mardorf
George F. Fritscher
Wartburg Theological Seminary
H. Nasether
Methodist Episcopal
Congregational
Professor Fritscher
United States
Holland
Germany
Sweden
Express
August Thomas
J. L. Gountermine
Saraphina Schweitzer
John Schweitzer
Jeremiah
Masera
John
W.O. Dennis
Lena Fields
S. Y. Bradstreet
Emma Pond
Nallie Carpenter
Kate Perley
Edith Sherman
Rockford College
Catherinne Delay
James Delaly
Barton and & Tutt’s
Friedman
Hanken & Jacobs
Variety Store
L. G. Stubler
Bath Robes Simmons
Keyser
Beery Bros
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